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Ammonium-5-tungsto-2-antimoniate (HPA23) can prevent fox rabies

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HPA 23, used at 120 mg/kg, can prevent fox rabies when it is administered at the time of infection: this compound has protected two foxes. It has also delayed the time of death in thirteen other foxes.

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  1. Station de Pathologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Tours, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Nouzilly

    M. Pepin

  2. Ministère de l'Agriculture, Direction de la Qualité, Services Vétéinaires, Centre National d'Etudes sur la Rage, Malzéville, France

    J. Blancou

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Pepin, M., Blancou, J. Ammonium-5-tungsto-2-antimoniate (HPA23) can prevent fox rabies. Archives of Virology 83, 327–329 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01309928

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